primary school

English

Noun

primary school (countable and uncountable, plural primary schools)

1. (British, Australia, education) A formal, obligatory kind of school that typically begins with nursery school or first grade and ends at fifth or sixth grade.

   Synonyms: elementary school, grade school

   The child's mother was tearful as he boarded the bus for his first day of primary school.

Coordinate terms

• secondary school
• tertiary education, tertiary-level education

 

Derived terms

• primary school student
• titan primary school

 

Related terms

• high school
• middle school

 

Translations

first formal, obligatory school

• Afrikaans: laerskool (af)
• Arabic: مَدْرَسَة اَلاِبْتِدَائِيَّة f (madrasa l-ibtidāʔiyya)
• Burmese: မူလတန်း (my) (mula.tan:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小學／小学 (zh) (xiǎoxué)

• Crimean Tatar: başlanğıç mektep, iptidaiy mektep
• Czech: základní škola (cs) f (not one-to-one)
• Danish: grundskole (da) c, underskole c
• Dutch: basisschool (nl) c, lagere school c
• Esperanto: elementa lernejo, bazlernejo
• Finnish: peruskoulu (fi), ala-aste (fi), alakoulu (fi)
• French: école primaire (fr) f
• German: Grundschule (de) f, (dated) Volksschule (de) f
• Greek: δημοτικό σχολείο (el) n (dimotikó scholeío)
• Hausa: firamare
• Hebrew: בֵּית סֵפֶר יְסוֹדִי m (bet séfer ysodí), בֵּית סֵפֶר עֲמָמִי (he) m (bet séfer 'amamí)
• Hindi: प्राथमिक विद्यालय m (prāthmik vidyālay), प्राइमरी स्कूल m (prāimrī skūl)
• Hungarian: általános iskola (hu)
• Icelandic: grunnskóli (is) m, barnaskóli m
• Indonesian: sekolah dasar (id)
• Irish: bunscoil f
• Italian: scuola elementare
• Japanese: 小学校 (ja) (しょうがっこう, shōgakkō)
• Khmer: សាលាបឋម (sala bak thom)
• Korean: 초등학교 (ko) (chodeunghakgyo), 국민학교 (ko) (gungminhakgyo) (nonstandard, before 1996), 소학교 (ko) (sohakgyo) (North)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مەکتەبی سەرەتایی (mektebî seretayî)

• Latin: ludus litterarius, educatio primaria
• Latvian: sākumskola m, pamatskola m
• Lithuanian: pradinė mokykla
• Lü: ᦷᦣᧂᦵᦣᧃᦓᦾᧉ (honghennoay²)
• Luxembourgish: Primärschoul f, Grondschoul f
• Macedonian: основно училиште n (osnovno učilište), осмоле́тка f (osmolétka), деветоле́тка f (devetolétka)
• Malay: sekolah rendah (ms)
• Manchu: ᠠᠵᡳᡤᡝ
  ᡨᠠᠴᡳᡴᡡ (ajige tacikū)
• Marathi: प्राथमिक शाळा f (prāthamika śāḷā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: barneskole (no) m

  Nynorsk: barneskole m, barneskule m

• Persian: دبستان (fa) (dabestân)
• Polish: szkoła podstawowa (pl) f, podstawówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: primária (pt) f
• Romanian: școală primară (ro) f, școală elementară f
• Russian: семиле́тка (ru) f (semilétka), нача́льная шко́ла (ru) f (načálʹnaja škóla)
• Scots: primary schuil
• Scottish Gaelic: bun-sgoil f
• Slovak: základná škola, prvý stupeň základnej školy
• Slovene: osnovna šola f
• Spanish: primaria (es) f
• Swedish: grundskola (sv) c, lågstadie c
• Tagalog: mababang paaralan, paaralang elementarya
• Thai: ประถมศึกษา
• Vietnamese: trường tiểu học
• Volapük: pöpajul (vo), donajul
• Welsh: ysgol gynradd
• Yiddish: פֿאָלקשול f (folkshul), פֿאָלקסשול f (folksshul)
• Zhuang: siujyoz